Düren sugar factory
The Düren sugar factory is a former company in the city of Düren , North Rhine-Westphalia .
The sugar factory was in Düren-Nord on Paradiesstrasse . Today the Dürener Service Betrieb (DSB) is located on the premises .
On June 23, 1869, Leopold Schoeller , Leopold Peill and Julius Brockhoff joined forces in a partnership agreement to operate a sugar factory. Leopold Peill (1846–1925) led the company for the first 56 years. Not only was sugar beet processed, but the sugar was also refined and marketed. In the first campaign in 1870, 2,000 quintals of beets were processed. A larger amount was not to be expected for the time being, as hardly any sugar beets have been grown in the area around Düren. That's why the sugar factory now grew beet itself. To this end, agricultural properties such as B. Gut Ollesheim (between Nörvenich and Eschweiler via Feld ) and the Schoellerhof bought from Bauweiler . This increased the acreage to around 5,000 to 6,000 acres . In the 1881 campaign, 900,000 quintals of sugar beets were processed.
In 1882 the factory put its own power supply system into operation, with which the power supply in the completely destroyed city of Düren was resumed after the Second World War . A separate rail connection to Düren station provided the necessary infrastructure. One of these locomotives is now used as a playground locomotive in Veldener Strasse at the skater track . Sugar beets from the villages of the Zülpicher Börde were also transported to Düren on the tracks of the Düren district railway until the 1960s.
1890 the company was L. Peill & Co. renamed. Leopold Peill senior was now the sole shareholder . His son Leopold Peill junior (1872–1941) supported him until he took over the management of the Peill & Sohn glassworks, later Peill & Putzler , after the First World War . The grandson of Leopold Peill senior, Walther Schoeller (1895–1954), took over the management when Leopold sen. died in 1925.
After the Second World War, production began in the halls, which were badly damaged by the air raid on November 16, 1944 . In 1945 35,000 quintals of sugar beet could be processed again. In 1949 the amount had already risen to 800,000 quintals , and in 1959 the two million mark was exceeded.
After Walther Schoeller's death in 1954, his widow Gisela Schoeller, née Hänel von Cronenthall, took over the management. Her successor was her son-in-law Dr. Hans Rachel.
In the 1950s and 1960s the plant was expanded and modernized. The writing Dürener Zucker shines on the newly built 43 m high silo towers . Thanks to the more modern production facilities, the number of workers fell from 450 to 260. Nevertheless, around 2.5 million quintals of beet were processed per campaign. In 1977 the Cologne-based company Pfeifer & Langen took a 49% stake in the Düren sugar factory. In 1981 four million quintals of sugar beet were processed. A renewed modernization of the systems was necessary. Due to the European Community's sugar regulation , production had to be reduced to three million quintals.
On January 1, 1987, Pfeifer & Langen took over 100% of the sugar factory. Only a few months later, on September 4th, the company announced that the Düren sugar factory would cease operations at the end of the 1987 campaign. The last 120 employees were laid off or transferred to nearby plants.
The former mud polders of the sugar factory are now the wetland "Auf der Birkesdorfer Roer", which has become a breeding and resting place for over 40 endangered bird species.
The Dürener Service Betrieb , a municipal service company for city cleaning, waste management, etc., the former municipal vehicle fleet, is located on the site of the former sugar factory .
Individual evidence
- ^ Werkbahnen in the Aachen area: Pfeifer & Langen KG - Düren sugar factory, 52349 Düren. Retrieved February 17, 2012 .
- ↑ Düren service company - We from the DSB. Retrieved February 17, 2012 .
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Coordinates: 50 ° 48 ' N , 6 ° 28' E